Portable buildings to replace tent hospital

Numurkah's temporary tent hospital will be replaced by portable buildings within two months.

More than 570 patients have been treated in the tent since floods badly damaged the town's hospital in March.

The CEO of the Numurkah District Health Service, Jacque Phillips, says portable buildings will be installed in September to provide more secure care for patients until permanent services can be restored.

She says the tent service was meant to operate for only three months but there have been delays in establishing the extent of damage to the hospital.

"So it's taken a long time for the building assessments to be completed, so even though that process is still continuing it's very evident now that it's going to take some time and I'm talking 18 months to two years before we have a full hospital back operational again," she said.

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